[ 04_CASE_STUDY · AUTOMOTIVE ]·Automotive / Supercar Tier

Recutting the diamond. Not restoring it.

Project classificationConcept

The TVR Ghost is not a heritage revival. It is a re-engineered flagship concept that brings a cult British marque into the supercar club tier — designed to park beside a Rolls-Royce on Dubai Marina without apologising for its lineage.

Concept moodboards06
Hero render passes12
Design sketches24
Programme arc18 mo
[ The brief ]

Take the cult. Make it inevitable.

TVR is one of the most loved cult marques in motoring — a name spoken in tones reserved for raw mechanical honesty. But love alone does not park you on Dubai Marina. The brand needed a flagship concept that could stand still next to a Rolls-Royce Spectre or a Ferrari Purosangue and refuse to look like a visitor.

We architected the TVR Ghost as the answer: a redrawn, re-engineered silhouette that grows the diamond-in-the-rough DNA of the marque into a supercar-club proposition without sterilising it. Brushed metallic cherry red over a carbon underbody, an active rear wing, a front face that reads as a single inhalation — every line argued for thirty minutes before it earned the surface.

Don't restore the diamond. Recut it.

[ Phase 01 / Form study ]

The flagship silhouette.

TVR GHOST · FRONT 3/4
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TVR GHOST · PROFILE
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TVR GHOST · REAR · ACTIVE WING
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DESIGN INK · SECTION STUDY
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[ Phase 02 / Film & Sound ]

The film and the DNA track.

Static renders are not enough at this tier. We scripted, directed and scored a short film for the Ghost — and composed an original DNA track to underscore it. Hover the still to play. Press the disc to hear the score.

TVR Ghost — hover to play cinematic film
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[ TVR · DNA TRACK ]

The Ghost score.

A bespoke DNA track composed to match the car’s silhouette language. Slow, structural, deliberate — the same restraint the surfaces argue for.

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[ Design pillars ]

Three rules that pulled TVR forward.

/ 01

Cherry red is the heritage.

We refused to abandon the marque colour. Brushed metallic depth means it reads as poured pigment under noon sun and as molten under marina spotlights — same car, two photographs.

/ 02

Carbon is structural, not decorative.

The underbody and rear diffuser are exposed weave because the engineering brief required it — never as a visual upgrade. Every gram has to argue for its surface.

/ 03

Surface continuity over feature drama.

Where competitors fight for attention with vents, slashes, and surface noise, the Ghost runs single-line continuity from front fender to rear haunch — confident enough to whisper.

"Park it next to a Rolls-Royce
and let the line speak first."

DG · LEAD LUXURY BRAND ARCHITECT

[ Methodology / Sports-car clubs ]

How LBA works on automotive marques and clubs.

Whether the brief is a heritage marque revival or a private supercar club's launch campaign, the working method is the same: we treat the car (or the membership) as the product, and the brand world as the room it lives in. Then we make sure the room is worthy of the product.

Concept architecture

Hero silhouette studies, surface ink sketches, photoreal renders for stakeholder buy-in long before tooling — so design intent is locked in pixels, not in metal.

Marina-test photography

Every render is composed against the environments the car will actually live in: Dubai Marina, Mayfair, Pebble Beach. If it doesn't hold its own beside a Rolls, it is not finished.

Membership / club identity

For private supercar clubs we architect the membership card, the gated event identity, the on-track signage system, and the after-hours editorial content engine.

Editorial-grade brand films

Static beauty shots are not enough at this tier. We script and direct moving-image sequences treated like fragrance films — slow, deliberate, sound-designed.

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